Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Rock Creek Wednesdays

The Northstar Session

7 p.m.

All ages until 10 p.m.

Free

The Northstar Session

You may recognize their music from film and TV, or their
recent live performance on NBC's Parenthood
this Fall (Season 2; Ep. 2). Most recently called a "combination of CSNY and Ryan
Adams," by their fans, The Northstar Session "displays vocal harmonies so
tight, you'll swear they're pre-recorded."

"The Northstar Session has the best combination of
Wilco's neo-country glow, and Travis' earnest optimism," says LA's Music Connection Magazine. The Santa Barbara Independent says,
"Whoever said catchy, straightforward pop-rock couldn't be artfully done,
clearly has not heard The Northstar Session."

And Matt Malley, founding member of the rock band
Counting Crows, calls this Southern California rock band "brilliant"
and "thrilling!"

Originally the artistic outlet of songwriter and
guitarist, Matt Szlachetka (Longmeadow, MA) as early as 2005, The Northstar
Session didn't become the band you hear today until Szlachetka moved to Los
Angeles in 2007 and met up with drummer/songwriter Kane McGee (Los Angeles,
CA), and keyboardist/ songwriter, Dave Basaraba (Portland, OR). Since then the
three have written and recorded one EP and three full-length records. A
prolific song-writing team, they tour tirelessly both acoustic and as an
electric band, translating their songs for any size audience/room.

Influenced heavily by the rock and roll sound
emanating from Hollywood and the surrounding areas in the 1960s and 1970s, The
Northstar Session chose to pay homage to many of these bands by recording two
of their albums in studios in historic Laurel Canyon. This "Laurel Canyon
Experience" is obvious in their music, and is often reminiscent of styles
you've heard before -- pop melodies with creative harmonies and countermelodies
that harken back to bands like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Neil Young, The
Beach Boys, Delaney and Bonnie, Little Feat and countless others.